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Social Visualization Encouraging Participation in Online Communities

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Groupware: Design, Implementation, and Use (CRIWG 2006)

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In order to encourage users to participate more actively and bring more contributions to peer-to-peer (p2p) online communities, we propose to create a motivational community visualization based on the social comparison theory. This paper describes the design of static version and a dynamic version of this visualization developed in our lab, explains the advantages and the disadvantages of the static version and the reason why we decided to develop the dynamic version. This paper also gives a detailed evaluation on the dynamic version.

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  1. Solutions AB TELUS Business Transformation, Edmonton, Canada

    Lingling Sun

  2. Computer Science Department, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

    Julita Vassileva

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  1. School of Telecommunications Engineering, University of Valladolid, Camino del Cementerio s/n, 47011, Valladolid, Spain

    Yannis A. Dimitriadis  & Eduardo Gómez-Sánchez  & 

  2. College of Information Science and Technology, University of Nebraska at Omaha,  

    Ilze Zigurs

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Sun, L., Vassileva, J. (2006). Social Visualization Encouraging Participation in Online Communities. In: Dimitriadis, Y.A., Zigurs, I., Gómez-Sánchez, E. (eds) Groupware: Design, Implementation, and Use. CRIWG 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4154. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11853862_28

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